Who will build the ark?

New Left Review

Volumn , Issue 61, 2010, Pages 29-46

  Davis, Mike ^a  

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2. The Cato Institute's execrable Patrick Michaels in the Washington Times, 12 February 2005.
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5. Indeed, three leading contributors to Working Group i charged that the Report deliberately understated the risks of sea-level rise and ignored new research on instability in the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets. See the debate in 'Letters', Science 319, 25 January 2008, pp. 409-10.
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17. iea report quoted in Wall Street Journal, 7 November 2008.
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19. Peggy Hollinger, 'EU Needs Stable Energy Policy, edf Warns', Financial Times, 5 October 2008.
20. The shameful charade in Copenhagen, crowned by Obama's desperate deceit of an agreement, exposed less the political gulf between nations than the moral abyss between governments and humanity. In the meantime, the famous 2°c of additional warming, which president and premier have vowed to prevent, is already working its way through the world ocean: a future that will happen even if all carbon emissions ceased tomorrow. (On 'committed' warming and the underlying illusion of Copenhagen, see the harrowing, if awkwardly tided article by Scripps Institution researchers V. Ramanathan and Y. Feng: 'On Avoiding Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference with the Climate System: Formidable Challenges Ahead', Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 105, 23 September 2008, pp. 14, 245-50.)
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